Month: May 2019

Square Enix has detailed when it plans to show off more of its Avengers game. As the name indicates, the game is based on the Marvel property and, it has been confirmed that we’ll learn more about it during Square Enix’s E3 2019 press conference on June 10 at 6PM PT. The tweet announcing the date indicates that the game may simply be called “Marvel’s Avengers.”

The Avengers Project was initially announced in January 2017, with Tomb Raider developer Crystal Dynamics and Deus Ex studio Eidos Montreal attached to it. Although the announcement provided very little in detail–something that has remained unchanged thus far–it did lay some of the foundations for its narrative.

In the original teaser, a voice narrated, “They say the time of heroes is over. That if you’re ‘different,’ you’re dangerous. But I know the truth. The world will always need heroes. We just need to reassemble.”

Thor’s hammer, Captain America’s shield, and Iron Man’s hand were shown, but they had clearly been through many battles and looked damaged. The tagline “reassemble” suggests the Avengers may have gone their separate ways, for some reason, and in the game will be brought back together to save the planet.

“The Avengers project is being designed for gamers worldwide and will be packed with all the characters, environments, and iconic moments that have thrilled longtime fans of the franchise,” read a press release from Square Enix. “Featuring a completely original story, it will introduce a universe gamers can play in for years to come.”

In January 2018, a full year after it was first announced, Crystal Dynamics provided an update on development, after it was noticed that the team was staffing up with ex-Naughty Dog and Visceral Games developers.

“We’re committed to delivering an incredible, completely original Avengers experience to our gamers, and that means we are always looking to add amazing developers to our existing best in class studio talent,” Crystal Dynamics co-head Scot Amos said.

In August 2018, it was confirmed that a new Crystal Dynamics studio situated in Bellevue, Washington was focusing on technology development and work on The Avengers Project.

Square Enix’s Marvel game, previously known as The Avengers Project, has been confirmed to be on show at E3 2019, and will be called Marvel’s Avengers.

The news comes from a new Twitter account called @PlayAvengers, which has posted a single Tweet announcing the presence of title at Square Enix’s E3 conference on June 10, beginning at 6pm PT (9pm ET / 2am UK / 11am AEST). The logo, featuring a new take on the classic Avenger’s A with the arrow, is the only thing from the game shown in the tweet, alongside Crystal Dynamics, Eidos Montreal, and Marvel logos.

Tune into Square Enix Live E3 2019 for the worldwide reveal of Marvel’s Avengers.

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Warning! Some SPOILERS for what we saw being filmed while on set in South Africa. Good Omens is set to release on Amazon Prime Video on Friday, May 31.

Occasionally the apocalypse arrives at the wrong time.

It’s happened to Good Omens, Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman’s cult comedic novel about the end of the world. At the turn of the millennium, director Terry Gilliam was poised to make a feature-length adaptation with an impressive Hollywood cast.

“Johnny Depp playing Crowley and Robin Williams was playing Hester, madam Tracy, and Aziraphale. Kirsten Dunst, I think playing Anathema,” co-author Neil Gaiman tells me. “He

just needed some money from America, a big studio to sign on. He went out, and it was just after 9/11. And no big studio was interested in a comedy about the end of the world. They just weren’t. They were like, ‘Please go away and stop bothering us’. And the thing fell apart.”

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Weather Factory has announced an Anthology Edition of its debut game, Cultist Simulator – and dropped an official announcement of its next, Book of Hours.

Cultist Simulator: Anthology Edition is a definitive version of the game with brand new additions, a celebration of the bizarre narrative card game’s 1st birthday, and seems also to mark the end of the game’s development. Thankfully, we know what’s coming next, thanks to a new trailer:

Book of Hours began life as a speculative tweet from Weather Factory co-founder Alexis Kennedy (you can read it below), but it’s become more than the mooted Cultist Simulator ‘expandalone’ in the months since that first mention.

“That original tweet really was the product of about ninety seconds thought,” explains Kennedy to IGN, “and we’ve grown the team so we can do something a bit fancier. So it’s going to be a fully-fledged game. It’s all the same setting

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